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The strategic berth template problem
(2014-12-01)
Imai, Akio
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Yamakawa, Yukiko
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Huang, Kuancheng
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運輸與物流管理系註：原交通所+運管所
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Department of Transportation and Logistics Management
A marine container terminal operator may have a situation with excessive calling requests to be served especially when some new service contracts are under consideration. For this situation, we propose a strategic berth template problem (BTPS) that selects the ships among the requesting ones to be served and arrange their berth-windows within a limited planning horizon. The BTPS employs the subgradient optimization procedure, which is an improved version of the procedure that the authors developed for the operational berth allocation problem. A wide variety of numerical experiments indicate the improved subgradient procedure works well for the BTPS. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.